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Power Couple: The Marriage of Frank and Deborah Ernst

Date: January 12, 2021 | Topic: Politics | Region: San Andreas | Tags: Frank Ernst, Elections, Republicans, Rockford

By Ira Levy


 

Frank Ernst, the Republican San Andreas Senate Minority Leader, and Deborah Ernst, the Executive Director of San Andreas Women’s Association, met unconventionally - as opponents on a Blaine County development project in the 1980s. Frank Ernst, serving as the Blaine County Planning Commission chairman, had approved a mining project on the San Chianski Mountain Range. Deborah Ernst, then Deborah Nowak, served as the Vice President of the San Andreas Conservation Society, which opposed the decision. Through their work to find a compromise, a smaller scale extraction project, a budding relationship built up. Today, they’re one of the most powerful couples in the San Andreas political scene.

 

Frank Ernst now serves as a state senator, representing the Northern District, encompassing Rodeo and Rockford Hills’s affluent neighborhoods. Under Ernst’s politicking in the Senate, the Republicans picked up an unprecedented number of seats for the first time in decades. Ernst, cultivating a crop of candidates consisting of moderates, which emphasized law and order, capitalized on the political unrest over the summer of 2020. According to polling by the San Andreas Public Policy Institute, San Andreans are increasingly dissatisfied with the long-term incumbency of the Democratic Party, which has increasingly encompassed far-left candidates advocating for expensive policies, higher taxes, and reduced penalties for petty crime.

 

“I’d say the Republican Party in San Andreas is fiscally conservative and socially compassionate,” Ernst said in a brief interview on the steps of the State Senate. “I think the election results speak for themselves; the Democrats have gone off the reservation on this socialist agenda that nobody wants outside the halls of the University of San Andreas.”

 

Ernst secured a narrow election victory when his opponent, Vinewood celebrity Bruce Steele, was caught in a sexting scandal with an intern. Thanks to Deborah Ernst’s position in San Andreas women’s organizations, the couple capitalized on the sex scandal, rallied the necessary endorsements from local leadership, to launch Frank into state office.

 

“The fact is, we need someone with dignity to lead the Northern District,” Deborah stated in a SAFM interview during the campaign. “Steele represents everything wrong with the Democrats today, a sense of entitlement on a moral pedestal.”

 

The Ernsts envision a less populist version of the Republican Party, distancing themselves from the polarized politics of Washington, DC. Most recently, Frank Ernst issued a statement condemning President Donald Trump for fomenting a riot at the US Capitol, and congratulated President-elect Joe Biden via Twitter on his victory in the 2020 election. However, Senator Ernst has not explicitly called for the president’s removal from office.

 

“We are better than that, and I’m glad that in San Andreas, we don’t have these kinds of problems in our politics,” Ernst said. “I think we can respectfully disagree without resulting in violence or leaning on wild conspiracies that undermine the integrity of our elections when results don’t go our way.”

 

Nevertheless, Frank Ernst is fiercely conservative on several issues, including policing, Second Amendment rights, environment, taxes, education, campaign finance, and healthcare. Not long before his ascendance to the State Senate, Ernst served as the Managing Partner for Ernst & Lang LLP, and lobbying group that advocated for greater privatization of San Andreas’s healthcare system. In addition, Senator Ernst served as a corporate lawyer for Integrity Holdings Incorporated (IHI).

 

“If there’s a swamp in San Andreas politics, I can assure you that the Ernsts are crocodiles,” Kwame Jackson, Principal of San Andreas Justice Democrats said. “Keep an eye on the Ernsts, because they’re going to bend the system in favor of special interests as far as they can.”

Edited by Eriks
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